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Liga Portugal · Matchday 9 Match report

Sporting CP 1-2 Académico Viseu: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Sporting CP crest Sporting CP
1-2Full time
Académico Viseu crest Académico Viseu
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisboa

Our picks against the result

7 of 12 right

  • Result Sporting CP win83% 1-2
  • Double chance Sporting CP or draw (1X)95% 1-2
  • Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.571% 3 goals
  • More corners Sporting CP84% Sporting CP (10-0)
  • Yellow cards Below average 6 yellow cards · league 4.3
  • Yellow cards 6 yellow cards 3.5 Over53% 4.5 Under67% 5.5 Under82%
  • Corners Above average 10 corners · league 8.8
  • Corners 10 corners 8.5 Over61% 9.5 Over50% 10.5 Under60%

Match stats

Sporting CP Académico Viseu
  • 1 Goals 2
  • 2 Yellow cards 4
  • 0 Red cards 0
  • 10 Corners 0

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Sporting CP vs Académico Viseu is the Liga Portugal Matchday 9 fixture at the Estádio José Alvalade on Sunday 25 October 2026, and we go with a home win, with a Sporting CP win or draw double chance.

Why this pick?

Sporting CP are our pick, and the main reason is the gap in our model's strength ratings: the home side sit third and rate clearly stronger, while newly promoted Académico Viseu are a long way below the Liga Portugal average. The counterweight is Viseu's run of four wins in five and seventh place, together with Sporting's short turnaround from the Champions League and a League Cup tie the following day. The pick holds because Sporting's big-chance creation runs above the league average, while Viseu's sits below it and they concede more shots than most. The call is a clear one.

Form guide

Sporting CP

  • L 2-3 vs LASK (H) Champions League · 21 Oct
  • W 2-0 at Lens (A) Champions League · 13 Oct
  • W 3-1 at Braga (A) Liga Portugal · 9 Oct
  • D 2-2 vs Arouca (H) Liga Portugal · 19 Sep
  • D 1-1 at Famalicão (A) Liga Portugal · 13 Sep

Académico Viseu

  • L 0-1 at Fátima (A) Taça de Portugal · 18 Oct
  • W 2-1 vs Estoril (H) Liga Portugal · 10 Oct
  • W 2-0 at Estrela da Amadora (A) Liga Portugal · 20 Sep
  • W 2-1 vs Vitória de Guimarães (H) Liga Portugal · 12 Sep
  • W 1-0 at Gil Vicente (A) Liga Portugal · 6 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Sporting CPAcadémico Viseu
Attack 100 41 2.5 goals per match this season1.4 goals per match this season
Defence 88 35 1.1 conceded per match this season1.3 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Liga Portugal clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.

Head-to-head

Sporting CP and Académico Viseu have not met in our records since 2010.

Liga Portugal so far

#Team PWDLGoalsGDPts
3 Sporting CP 8 530 20:9 +11 18
7 Académico Viseu 8 422 11:10 +1 14

Positions in our table of 18 clubs, before kick-off. Full table

Match facts

Competition
Liga Portugal, Matchday 9
Kick-off
Venue
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisboa

Questions and answers

What was the score of Sporting CP vs Académico Viseu?

Sporting CP 1-2 Académico Viseu in the Liga Portugal (Matchday 9) on Sunday 25 October 2026.

Was the OptimaGoal prediction for Sporting CP vs Académico Viseu right?

No: our result pick was Sporting CP win, and the score after 90 minutes was 1-2. 7 of our 12 picks and markets for this match were right.

How many cards and corners were there in Sporting CP vs Académico Viseu?

6 yellow cards (Sporting CP 2, Académico Viseu 4), no red cards and 10 corners (Sporting CP 10, Académico Viseu 0).

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